Iranian-born British architect Farshid Moussavi has been selected ahead of Rem Koolhaas, Jeanne Gang and David Chipperfield to design an Ismaili cultural centre in Houston, Texas. More
The rapid growth of the vegan food movement is starting to drive demand for vegan furniture, fashion and homeware. Designers working to make cruelty-free products mainstream say an industry-wide shift is being led by consumers. More
UK minister for housing Kit Malthouse has defended the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission, calling on architects to work with him to resist bland, developer-led housing. More
Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed plans to transform a former industrial site in Chicago into a "new urban destination". More
Mars One, the Dutch company that held an open call for volunteer astronauts to settle on Mars, has gone into liquidation. More
London's brutalist-era Welbeck Street car park is to be torn down and replaced by a luxury hotel, despite campaigns to save its unique facade. More
This week, Dezeen interviewed architect David Adjaye at the opening of his Making Memory exhibition, where he said that architects need to work to counter false narratives. More
Fashion house Gucci has discontinued a jumper accused of resembling blackface and apologised for any offence caused. More
Stockholm Furniture Fair guests of honour Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu have revealed details of their fight to improve the quality of their installation at the fair. More
This year's Royal Academy Architecture Prize has been awarded to Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, founders of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. More
Angela Ahrendts, the "transformative force" behind Apple Store designs, will leave her position at the tech company this spring. More
New York's Museum of Modern Art will close over the summer in order to complete its Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed overhaul, then fully re-open four months later. More
The third Chicago Architecture Biennial will forego a single theme in order to push the architecture profession to "think more meaningfully" about a host of contemporary issues, according to artistic director Yesomi Umolu. More
BIG has unveiled an expansive cable-car system with two transit hubs to be built in Oakland, as part of the architecture studio's plans for a new baseball stadium in the California city. More
Danish studio Henning Larsen is set to add a new foyer, performance space and workshop to the Opéra Bastille in Paris. More
A team led by professor Xu Weiguo at the Tsinghua University School of Architecture in Beijing has 3D-printed a 26.3-metre-long concrete bridge, which they claim is the world's longest. More
Stuart Semple has released the "flattest, mattest, black acrylic paint in the world" and banned Anish Kapoor from using it, as the latest development in an ongoing feud between the two British artists. More
Selldorf Architects will design the Qianlong Garden Interpretation Center within a palace of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, which has never been opened to the public. More
David Adjaye has created a "provocation or a question" for the public with an exhibition on his monuments and memorials at the Design Museum in London. More
US architecture firm Studio Gang has revealed plans to overhaul a park on Memphis' Mississippi River, which include building a plant-covered viewing tower, bulbous stoney structures, and a gridded canopy for basketball. More